Dr Alex Reid

Head of Genotyping

Telephone Number+44(0)131 244 8910

Research interests/Areas of expertise

Crop genotyping using various methods.

Molecular taxonomy of nematodes.

Development of high throughput detection systems.

Biography

I joined SASA in 2002 and have worked on a variety of molecular biology projects including the development of a genotyping system for potato variety identification. With partners from the Netherlands, Poland, Germany and CPVO this work was extended across Europe to create a database contain over 900 varieties on the EU Common Catalogue. Current projects incluce barley variey identification, devlopment of a high throughput method for potato cyst nematode detection and aphid species identification.